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What a lot of doctors forget, and what we're conditioned to forget, is that doctors are providing a service.
If what they're providing is less than satisfactory, why should you put up with it?
Sometimes it's hard to hear, doesn't mean the doctor is wrong.
A doctor who doesn't tell a patient facts about their health isn't a caring doctor.
One would hope a doctor is tactful, aka good bedside manner, and helps patients rather than just says stuff.
And there is also being a good patient, ask your doctor questions, ask what they can do to help you and ask what you can do to help yourself.
mm, true, but blaming weight for unrelated conditions (or worse, the condition that is actively causing the weight gain) helps absolutely no one. And there is a massive tendency in medical professions to prejudge a patient and fob them off with "lose weight" rather than actually diagnose the issue.
Exactly this, telling me to lose weight but not offering me any support or help with it doesn't help me to treat my pcos and weight loss should be slow and methodical, so it doesn't help treat some of the issues associated with it now.
mofo didn't even discuss helping you lose weight beyond his (it's always a him) imperious mandate to do so? Someone should go take a shit in his letterbox.
Disappointingly, it was actually a her.
Well yeah, but all too often doctors say 'lose weight' as the only option without even considering others.
"One would hope a doctor is tactful, aka good bedside manner, and helps patients rather than just says stuff."
laughs in chronic health condition
Definitely agree with this, it was "lose weight and you'll be fine" but not "losing weight will help the most, however it can be difficult with PCOS, so here are some options that might help"
had a mate get told her ankle problems were caused by her weight.
.....her weight was caused by the fact she was unable to exercise because her ankle was fucked. By a misfused bone.
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I suffer sciatica and ocular rosacea. Both are chronic conditions. I was lucky to have doctors who taught me how to look after myself and I try hard to do everything they said. It's hard though, there's no magic bullet , no cure, just management on my part.
It's more so that losing weight is a part of treating PCOS but the doctor didn't acknowledge or even consider the difficulty of losing weight with the hormone imbalance and insulin resistance associated with it.
That's definitely true, I forget that the doctor was just doing their job and probably is unbothered and also didn't give me the medical help I required for one part of my overall condition.